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Gmina Chynów is a rural
gmina
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(administrative district) in
Grójec County
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Grójec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998 ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
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Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, in east-central
Poland
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. Its seat is the village of
Chynów, which lies approximately east of
Grójec
Grójec is a town in eastern Poland, located in the Masovian Voivodeship, about south of Warsaw. It is the capital of the urban-rural administrative district Grójec and Grójec County. It has 16,674 inhabitants (2017). Grójec surroundings ...
and south of
Warsaw
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.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 9,442.
Villages
Gmina Chynów contains the villages and settlements of
Adamów Rososki,
Barcice Drwalewskie,
Barcice Rososkie,
Budy Sułkowskie,
Budziszyn,
Budziszynek,
Chynów,
Dąbrowa Duża,
Dobiecin,
Drwalew,
Drwalewice,
Edwardów,
Franciszków,
Gaj Żelechowski,
Gliczyn,
Grobice,
Henryków,
Jakubowizna,
Janów,
Jurandów,
Krężel,
Kukały,
Lasopole,
Ludwików,
Machcin,
Mąkosin,
Marianów,
Martynów,
Marynin,
Milanów,
Nowe Grobice,
Pawłówka,
Pieczyska,
Piekut,
Przyłom,
Rososz,
Rososzka,
Staniszewice,
Sułkowice
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Sport
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,
Watraszew,
Węszelówka,
Widok,
Wola Chynowska,
Wola Kukalska,
Wola Pieczyska,
Wola Żyrowska,
Wygodne,
Zalesie,
Zawady,
Żelazna,
Żelechów
Żelechów (Yiddish language, Yiddish זשעלעכאָוו) is a town in eastern Poland in Masovian Voivodeship in Garwolin County. It is the seat of Gmina Żelechów. Żelechów is from Warsaw and far from Lublin. More than 4000 people live in ...
and
Żyrów.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Chynów is bordered by the gminas of
Góra Kalwaria
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,
Grójec
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,
Jasieniec,
Prażmów and
Warka
Warka () is a town in east-central Poland, located on the left bank of the Pilica river ( south of Warsaw), with 11,858 inhabitants (2013). It has been situated in Grójec County, in the Masovian Voivodeship, since 1999; previously it was in t ...
.
Rural Poverty
According to a 2008 'Der Spiegel' article, the children who attend the elementary school in Chynów are suffering the consequences of rising
food prices
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, to the point that a school meal is the best meal a child may receive, and has come to represent a major incentive for a child to attend school.
This state of affairs is difficult to reconcile with the facts that Poland is a contributor to many international and EU-wide food-aid programmes, and Chynów is situated in an area well endowed with agricultural land.
As to why such a problem has arisen with regard to food supply, above and beyond the current rise in prices, it would seem likely that lack of food production is due to EU agricultural policies and /or mal-administration at the state and/or county levels.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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